Mikhaeyla Kopievsky

Mikhaeyla Kopievsky is an Australian author of literary and speculative fiction. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards, longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and EJ Brady Short Story Prize, and published in Uncharted, Etherea Magazine, and indie anthologies. Her speculative fiction novels Resistance (Divided Elements #1) and Tasmanian Gothic, were both semi-finalists in Hugh Howey’s SPSF Competition.

Born in Sydney, Mikhaeyla now lives on acreage in the Hunter Valley with her husband, son, two rescue dogs, four Australorp chooks, and the occasional herd of beautiful Black Angus steers. She holds degrees in International Relations, Environmental Science, and Decision Analytics.

When she is not writing or reading, Mikhaeyla enjoys discovering new music, collecting shells at the beach, stargazing, and training to be a ninja.

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Novels & Series

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Resistance | Divided Elements #1

Winner of OneBookTwo Standout Award.
Semi-finalist in Hugh Howey’s inaugural SPSFC.
More than 200 reviews on Amazon and
a 4.2 star rating.

Once known as Paris, the walled city-state of Otpor is enjoying a new Golden Age. The horrors of the Singularity forgotten, citizens revel in an intoxicating mix of abandon and apathy made possible by the Orthodoxy—a new world order where everything is engineered for maximum efficiency, including identities. Dividing the population into four neuro-social classes has allowed the government to maintain control and ensure its citizens exist in complete equality, fraternity, and liberty. But, not everyone is satisfied with the status quo.

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Rebellion | Divided Elements #2

The anticipated sequel to Resistance
(Divided Elements #1). 4.7 star average on Amazon with 50 reviews. “Powerful, thought-provoking fiction”.

Abandoned and reviled by both the Fire
and Air Elements, Anaiya 234 is desperate to stay off the radar and keep her own Heterodoxy hidden…and yet her guilt and need for redemption drive her back into the conflict that first unraveled her identity. With Otpor now a battleground scarred by violent attacks and reprisals, Anaiya will be forced to confront her fractured identity and forge new relationships. As she races to uncover deeper secrets at the heart of the Cooperative, will her past come back to haunt her…or save her?

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Revolution | Divided Elements #3

The thrilling conclusion to the subversive dystopian series Divided Elements. 4.7 star average on Amazon. “A great dystopian future saga.”

With her conditioning unravelled, Anaiya is
finally free. But her single-minded pursuit to pull down the Cooperative and its Orthodoxy is made more complicated with the return of old friends and foes who challenge her vision for Otpor’s future.
In a world of fragile trust and heavy betrayals, will Anaiya finally get what she wants? Or will she, too, join the legacy of her former mentor – the infamous Original Resistor, Kane 148?

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Revelation | Divided Elements #0.5

A Divided Elements origin story novella. 4.1 average on Amazon with 30 reviews.

Living in the Golden Age of Otpor has gifted citizens a life of purpose and stability. But, Lira—conditioned to be a Cleaner—wants something more. Risking detention by the authorities, her thieving ways have put her in contact with an opportunistic scammer and both of them in the path of dangerous secrets about Otpor’s history and its dominant ideology, the Orthodoxy.

In a world where acting outside the predetermined borders of your identity lead you to the execution pillar, Lira’s discoveries threaten to destabilise the carefully constructed order of Otpor and trigger a revolution decades in the making.

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Tasmanian Gothic

A standalone genre-bending novel that fuses a grimdark love story with a gothic dystopian biopunk fever dream. Semi-finalist in Hugh Howey’s 2024 SPSF Competition.

In a post-apocalyptic nightmare, the island of Tasmania has been transformed by a lush mutant wilderness, an impenetrable border wall that divides the affluent North from the contaminated South, and a decades-long war between the two crime lords of the southern reaches.

Solari, orphaned and alone, survives the war by scouring the Tasmanian wilderness for mutant organisms and transforming them into the highly addictive snowrock for cold and ruthless Yevgeny Worcsulakz. But when a troublesome ex causes Worcsulakz to reconsider the terms of their agreement, Solari runs – escaping the promise of violence with a handful of cash, a stolen van, and a pair of wings cleaved from a mutant moth.

Short Stories

Enemy Lines
Uncharted, Mar 2024

The heat was brutal in the weeks before Ari was captured. Parched Goondiwindi soil baked in forty-degree days and denuded trees stood cemented in place by air that refused to move. Nothing moved in that heat. Nothing but the Southerners hitting a rare breach in the wall—they darted through the streets like wild rabbits, their noses full of danger’s musty stench…

Grasshopper
Etherea Magazine #9, Apr 2022

The girl slipped away unnoticed from her parents and into the field. It was mid-afternoon; the sun burned in the white sky and only the sound of her mother’s sobbing broke the silence of still, stale air. She knelt in the dry earth and held out her hands, cupped in invitation. In supplication. The grasshopper quivered, its leaf-like wings shining translucent…

Sea Mist Shore Witch
Where the Weird Things Are, Vol 2

There is an ominous stretch of road that runs twenty kilometres from the sleepy coastal town of Hawks Nest all the way to Bombah. It runs like a dark grey scar, barely wide enough for two lanes of traffic, its edges bleeding into the sandy shoulders and messy scrub of sea grasses. Eucalypts tower along each side like sentinels, flanked by a motley cadre of tea tree and lantana, all of them guarding the Myall River...

Truthseeker
Scorpio Anthology

The sands are shifting. The sky overhead turns
dark and the emboldened wind hurtles the grains
at me like a thousand tiny spears. I pull my keffiyeh higher, the soft cotton covering my nose and
bringing with it the lingering scent of cardamom
and cinnamon. The scent of the Red Bazaar…
…“You are too angry. Breathe.”…

Heterochromia
Once Upon a Dystopia

Ella shoved her fists into her pockets, fighting the
itch to claw out the coloured contact lens that felt like sandpaper against her right eye. Her blue eye; the one that marked her as Primi.

The streets of Anders weren’t crowded, the deep snow drifts and biting cold enough to keep most people home, but the EyeSpy drones still hovered overhead, so she endured the discomfort and kept walking…